Whitsunday Islands: 2 day 2 night sailing tour. Our boat was the Clipper, the party boat which has 50 people on board. its one of the biggest and best boats that backpackers go on. We had to all put our stuff a bag with no zips and take our flip flops off as we entered the boat. Everyone was very excited and first job was to put the huge amounts of alcohol in the cooler fridge thing. There was no glass allowed so we bought a 700ml bottle of vodkay for $30 and po...

Friday 24th October Whilst recovering from Fraser we all had a drink in the hostel and went to bed drunk again. Then the next day we hired 50cc choppers and drove around Rainbow Beach. It was great we were going at up to 80 miles an hour and then went to watch the sunset go down. We were on the chopper trip with a Canadian guy I think he's called Andy who was on our noosa camp site. We treated ourselves to a chinese with a starter and everything that night oh wh...

21st October 2008 Just got back from a 3 day 2 night trip to Fraser Island. One big piss up basically! We stayed at the hostel next door first called Rainbow on Frasers then stayed in our 2 dorm room Dingo's resort which wasnt too bad. We went to the briefing the day before and we all got put into our groups. Luckily we were in a good group. 11 of us altogether 4 Irish Girls that were travelling together, then another Irish Couple from Dunygaul (sorry Irish I ha...

17th October 2008. We hopped on the Greyhound bus from Brisbane to Noosa Heads. The greyhound bus is great, aircon, toilet, film to watch we arrived in a couple of hours to our hostel Noosa Backpackers. We got the free shuttle into town and had a look around. Quaint little town, beautiful beach. Again the wheather was a bit rainy, windy etc but still really hot and humid. We decided to walk back to the hostel for some excersice and took us over an hour! We bough...

Brisbane 12th October. Arrived in Brisbane from Surfers Paradise yesterday on Mikes birthday. its been raining the last couple of days but really hot and humid. We had to give the van back and spent hours driving around Brisbane trying to find the depot and getting a bit stressed out! Finally found it and gave the van back a couple of hours early as there is NO PLACE TO PARK IN BRISBANE whatsoever! Oh there are carparks underground but they are $12 for half an h...